{"id":3259,"date":"2017-06-11T00:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:37","slug":"weekend-reading-the-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/weekend-reading-the-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Reading: The Time Machine<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just posted a new Web edition of H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0This story (at around 33,000 words, it would be considered a long novella today), was originally published in 1895. \u00a0Wells continued to revise it over the years, with the final version published in 1935. \u00a0My edition is based upon that text. \u00a0I originally posted a Web edition in 2002. \u00a0This revision updates the documents to current Web standards (XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS3) and improves typography, formatting,\u00a0and navigation.<\/p>\n

The story can be read in one or two sittings, and is much better\u00a0and more interesting than the two Hollywood movies loosely based upon it. \u00a0Given Wells’s attraction to socialism and communism, it is an interesting view of the ultimately pernicious consequences of eliminating risks and challenges and providing for all the material needs of a population without demanding anything of them except\u2014well, you’ll see. \u00a0There is also a very 19th century glimpse into the gloomy perspective of the heat death of the universe.<\/p>\n

Please don’t complain about the quote marks. The 1935 edition was published in Britain. British publishers use \u2018single quotes\u2019 for the outer level of quotations and \u201cdouble quotes\u201d for quotations nested within them, while U.S. publishers use exactly the opposite convention. In this edition, I have used quote marks as the author wrote them and his publisher printed them. Because of the story’s unusual narrative structure, the main long quotation is carried over from chapter to chapter without a closing quote until the Time Traveller pauses his story in chapter 7 and concludes it in chapter 12: this is as it was in the original.<\/p>\n

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I have just posted a new Web edition of H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0This story (at around 33,000 words, it would be considered a long novella today), was originally published in 1895. \u00a0Wells continued to revise it over the years, with the final version published in 1935. \u00a0My edition is based upon that text. \u00a0I originally posted a Web edition in 2002. \u00a0This revision updates the documents to current Web standards (XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS3) and improves typography, formatting,\u00a0and navigation.<\/p>\n

The story can be read in one or two sittings, and is much better\u00a0and more interesting than the two Hollywood movies loosely based upon it. \u00a0Given Wells’s attraction to socialism and communism, it is an interesting view of the ultimately pernicious consequences of eliminating … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}